Virtual After-School: Intermediate Debate: Term 2

This online after-school program prepares students for formal and informal presentations. Participants learn to craft and present arguments and inform, persuade, and motivate an audience in a variety of ways. Our second term will cover new skills and more advanced debate strategies and introduce students to a new form of debate. This class is ideal for intermediate debaters who already have some experience and are ready to practice fine-tuning their speeches, responding to cold calls, pinpointing and refuting fallacies in logic, setting a frame for their debate, developing plans of implementation, and more.

Why Debate? (From the ESU and the New York Debate League)

Debate is a natural fit for middle school education and students. Studies, as well as common sense, recommend the benefits. 

Debate:

• builds literacy and multimedia research skills
• fosters critical thinking and expanded perspectives
• enhances public speaking skills
• increases confidence
• trains students to listen effectively
• supports diverse learners
• strengthens civil engagement and discourse